Afternoon Planateers.
As promised here is the last of the three Redcoats that I've got 'round to photographing at last. It's the Chota Sahib 54mm figure Officer of the Royal Devon Yeomanry 1902. Pretty much a straight paint job added a few minor details such as the chin scales on the busby. I decided with the receding hairline that he would be an older officer and the grey hair seemed to work with the grey braided jacket.
Given the pose I pictured him in one of those typical sepia regimental studio photo's of the period. I wanted the setting to be quite subdued and whilst the obvious thing to do would have been to print a 'Persian' rug and then glue it in place it looked too bright so I made one from putty and added some wooden flooring with basswood strip to go underneath it.
Hope you enjoy him (The next one is definitely a red free figure)
Paul
As promised here is the last of the three Redcoats that I've got 'round to photographing at last. It's the Chota Sahib 54mm figure Officer of the Royal Devon Yeomanry 1902. Pretty much a straight paint job added a few minor details such as the chin scales on the busby. I decided with the receding hairline that he would be an older officer and the grey hair seemed to work with the grey braided jacket.
Given the pose I pictured him in one of those typical sepia regimental studio photo's of the period. I wanted the setting to be quite subdued and whilst the obvious thing to do would have been to print a 'Persian' rug and then glue it in place it looked too bright so I made one from putty and added some wooden flooring with basswood strip to go underneath it.
Hope you enjoy him (The next one is definitely a red free figure)
Paul
